Law, Territory and Conflict Resolution: Law As a Problem and Law As a Solution

The present book originates from the conference ‘Law, Territory, and Conflict Resolution’ organised by the editors in cooperation with the Department of Legal Sciences of the University of Verona and with the EURAC-Institute for Studies on Federalism and Regionalism, Bolzano/Bozen, and held in Verona on 21 November 2014. The main aim of the symposium was to gather a group of distinguished European legal scholars, mainly from the fields of comparative constitutional law and international law, to discuss the role of the law in contributing to the settlement of territorial disputes and conflicts or, on the contrary, in exacerbating those conflicts.

The book is articulated in two parts. Part I deals with general questions and approaches to the understanding of the role of the law in territorial conflicts and disputes. Part II focuses on the most significant case studies that shed light on the ‘realities’ of the legal dimension in territorial conflicts.